Kelowna a Success!

Last week Matt and I took the trip out west to train a bunch of young professionals on building an efficient and successful team. The challenge was called 'Assembling Success'. Now, we've done this exercise all over the world to over 150 people and this one had them all beat!

Without giving away all our trade secrets, the objective is loosely around trying to make as many products in the allotted amount of time. Typically we see anywhere from 1-10. I think the count on this team... over 30 (before the stealing rampage began that is).

I'm not sure why this team was more effective, but they sure assembled a successful team! Good work!












PS. Check out our new website - www.igniteyoursmallbiz.ca.

Not just a book anymore!

Ok, so we never were just a book, but now our website shows that. IGNITE Consulting now has a website with just a page about the book (Trucker Management for those that don't have a copy yet). It provides information on our training, speaking engagements and who we are. So have a peek - let us know what you think - www.igniteyoursmallbiz.com.

On another note, Matt and I are off to Kelowna tomorrow to do another training session for JCI called Assembling Success. Next week we'll post some pictures. In the meantime, we're still looking for training opportunities, so if you know of any let us know!

The Birdhouse Challenge in Jasper Indiana

Matt and I presented a full day of workshops in July in Jasper Indiana. Over 50 people were at the conference. One of the sessions was the Birdhouse Challenge where teams are paired off to live the life of an entrepreneur from start to finish, concluding with promoting their product. In the 70 or so times we have done this session, we have never had a team actually make a commercial...until now. So here it is.

Continuing the World Tour in 2008

For those of you keeping up with the World Tour we've been on this past year, we're not done yet! Some of the places we are trying to secure training and keynote opportunities for 2008 are:

• Iceland
• Malta
• Washington, DC
• Florida
• North Carolina
• Quebec City
• Ottawa
• London, ON
• Winnipeg
• Northwest Territories or Nunuvat

If you have any connections or would like to help us plan something in any of these places (or anywhere else on the globe for that matter) please let us know.

YeeHaw! We're in Calgary

Stop number 3 on the world tour! We arrived Tuesday in Calgary to a balmy 5 degrees and light flurries - much different then the 25 degrees and smog advisory in Kingston.

Tomorrow we're doing the Day in the Life of an Entrepreneur training session at the JCI Canada National Convention. There are over 125 dynamic young leaders registered from across Canada. Wonder what they'll think when they see the costumes they have to wear - not your typical conference training session!

Check back in a few days for some pics and stories about our trip.